You
may live among the prickly pears, dust devils, and intense sun of
the desert. Or you may reside in a small town nestled alongside
cornfields. Or perhaps you live in the big city and take a train in
to work every day.

No matter where you live, your surroundings have special physical,
historical, and spiritual characteristics that you can--and
should--rely on to breathe life into any work of fiction or
nonfiction.

During
this course, you'll learn to tap into the world you know in order to
establish a realistic sense of place in your writing. You'll develop
your eye for detail, and you'll find out how to collect the
information you'll need to infuse your works with believable
characters, memorable settings, and detailed descriptions.

This hands-on course is filled with a variety of valuable exercises
that will help you hone your skills of observation, interviewing,
collecting oral histories, remembering details and descriptions,
reproducing dialogue and diction, using figurative language,
developing realistic characters, and more.

By the
time you finish this course, you'll be well-prepared to create truly
unique works filled with vivid and meaningful observations of the
people, places, foods, customs, and events in not only your local
community, but also in places that exist only in your memory.

This course includes a knowledgeable and
caring instructor who will guide you through your lessons,
facilitate discussions, and answer your questions. The instructor
for this course will be Lori Wilde.

Lori Wilde

About
the
ExpertRating Online Writing Course (Descriptive Writing) instructor :Lori Wilde has
published 45 romance novels with Harlequin, Time Warner, and St.
Martin’s Press. Her novels have been translated into 17 languages
and her work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Redbook, and Quick and
Simple magazines. She is a four-time nominee for Romantic Times
Reviewers’ Choice Award and she is a former finalist for the
Romance Writers of America prestigious RITA award. Several of her
books have appeared on the Waldenbooks bestseller list. Her
novels have garnered accolades from Publishers Weekly and
Booklist. She is a former registered nurse and for the last 10
years has made her living writing romance.

Testimonials:
The ExpertRating Online Writing Course (Descriptive Writing) has received overwhelming positive
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"After
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It's been a very long time since I was in school or took any type of classes. I
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"Creating
a Sense of Place was my first creative writing course and my first online
course. It has exceeded my expectations. Liz Rolfsmeier, the instructor is
encouraging and offers constructive suggestions to help improve the students'
writing skills. I truly enjoyed the comments from Liz and the other participants
in the discussion area. I have more confidence in my ability to write memoirs
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"Great
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"I
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"I
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"I
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"I
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and how to integrate it into my writing. I also liked that much of the focus was
on creative writing, not just assignments for the sake of an assignment."

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The
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A friendly instructor to answer your questions online

A discussion area to have your questions answered

Chapter end quizzes to ensure that you are learning important aspects of every chapter

Chapter assignments to help you practically use the
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The final exam is fully based upon the
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ExpertRating instructor led courses commence
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please click on the "Enroll now" button. All courses run for six weeks, with a two-week grace period at the end. Two lessons are released each week for the six-week duration of the course. You do not have to be present when the lesson is released, but you must complete each lesson within two weeks of its release.

A new section of each course starts on the second or third Wednesday of each month. If enrolling in a series of two or more courses please be sure to space the start date for each course at least two months apart.

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